Re: [DNSOP] Introducing draft-vavrusa-dnsop-aaaa-for-free

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>As I think many here know, I am not of the get-off-my-lawn persuasion
>for DNS innovations.  I don't think it's a bad idea in principle.  I'm
>just aware that we have this long history, and that history was based
>on a certain kind of conservatism that is arguably appropriate to a
>technology quite as fundamental to the Internet functioning as the DNS
>is.  If we're going to abandon that conservatism, I think it needs
>quite a lot more early IETF buy-in than we might get by developing
>this work here in DNSOP.  The more signal we can get to suggest that
>DNS actors are ok with the innovation, the lower I think that bar gets.

I'd be a lot more comfortable if we had some field test data about
what real DNS caches do with the extra AAAA records.  In theory
nothing bad should happen, in practice ...

R's,
John